self intersecting loft

darren_mason871

I'm trying to loft these 2 profiles and I get an error that says current selections would create a self intersecting body. What am I getting wrong?

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/197dbc6998ee1c6eb45141a6/w/c3ffbb6dab85d61ce7e70355/e/562ae4c30e3f05e90305c722

steve_shubin

@darren_mason871
3 SEGMENTS PER SIDE
12 SEGMENTS TOTAL

steve_shubin

@darren_mason871

darren_mason871

I edited sketch 5 with split and it didn't fix it, so I made another file with a new profile instead of sketch 5 and I still get the same error. Here's the link to the new file.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/770e1dc4a0f4e65422f4e6e8/w/428ef6c27be01bac99ccc82f/e/9cf0b9370ac8f0c0f4a49a0b

lana

@darren_mason871
Your sketch 6 has 12 segments while your sketch 7 has 8. With loft you are in control only if sketches have equal number of segments.

darren_mason871

Then I'm confused how did steve_shubin loft with the 4 sided square above?

steve_shubin

@darren_mason871
3 SEGMENTS PER SIDE
12 SEGMENTS TOTAL